(9-4-06) - Anthropology Notes Cultural Anthropology Study...

Anthropology Notes (8/30/06)Cultural Anthropology:Study of human societies, their belief systems, their cultural adaptations, and their social behaviors•Urban Anthropology•Medical Anthropology •DemographicsArcheology: The recovery, analysis, and interpretation of material culture from past civilizations•Geology•Botany•PaleontologyLinguistics: The study of languages•historical linguistics- origins of a language•sociolinguistics- social uses of a language•salvage linguistics- recording dying languagesBiological Anthropology: The study of human evolution, biological variation, and adaptation*forensics*human growth and adaptation*paleontology*primatology*geneticsApplied Anthropology: Solve a problem I the context of the culture in which it exists.-utilizes more than one area of anthropology

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